HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

    Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    How to restrict function showed in IBM Connection plugin for IBM Notes menu

    This request is to restrict IBM connection plugin for IBM Notes menu to shows only : - My folder- Community files- Community folders This is just to simplifies user adoption for the product. Based on internal collaboration, there are no options to...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add enhanced help manual or video for Surveys

    As an end-user I want to use Surveys with all of the capabilities. There is no manual or video explaining how to.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Remove character limitation from Output condition value .

    While running the web services job we are not able to track all status due to character limitation of 256. Increasing the length will help in tracking the various status of the job execution.
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Needs Clarification

    Tag Filtering - Files

    Is it possible to get an additional tag filtering like "My Files" in Community Files ?
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Update "Action Required" if action is done

    For IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Connections 6.0: There are some applications which add items to the "Action Required" activity stream like: Activity > Assign TODO item to an user CCM Library > Document approval / review Community > Invit...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential Currently the ID of the survey responses are not sequential, it can change if the internal block of IDs is restarted.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes - An image being an embedded part of the rich-text field of an IBM Notes document should be able to be pulled in the Notes Client's plugin-sidebar "Files"

    An image being an embedded part of the rich-text field of an IBM Notes document should be able to be pulled in the Notes Client's plugin-sidebar "Files" as it's possible for document attachments.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Community Manager (person field or Role) Primary point of contact - owner responsible for maintenance and community content

    In our organization we have several thousand connections communities. As part of our monthly maintenance tasks we contact community owners assigned to communities who have no activity for 90 days and ask them to take action to revitalize or remove...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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